Máté Tóth
List of John Benjamins publications in which Máté Tóth is involved.
Articles
2026 The taste of smells: Metonymically motivated synesthetic expressions in Hungarian Metonymic Thinking All the Way Down: From discourse to the lexicon, and beyond, Portero-Muñoz, Carmen, Antonio Barcelona and Almudena Soto Nieto (eds.), pp. 171–204 | Article
Synesthetic expressions are generally taken to be metaphorical phenomena involving a mapping across distinct perceptual domains based on cross-modal commonalities between them. The present paper seeks to supplement this view so far as to point out that some synesthetic expressions are… read more
2024 A case for metonymic synesthesia: Describing olfactory stimuli in terms of taste adjectives in German Review of Cognitive Linguistics 22:1, pp. 70–99 | Article
Verbal synesthesia is generally considered to be a special type of metaphor involving concepts stemming from distinct sensory domains. However, with the upsurge of metonymy research some authors have proposed a metonymic motivation for synesthetic expressions. In line with these proposals, I… read more